This study presents a comprehensive approach for the design optimisation of passive components and heatsinks in power electronic converters. The design and selection of passive components are posed as a multi-objective optimisation problem, which can be simplified to a single-objective optimisation based on preferences and weights assigned by the designer. The mathematical equations describing the efficiency, volume, and reliability are laid out to describe the feasible space for optimisation in this study. In addition to the proposed optimisation, a substantial amount of passive component comparison data has been consolidated and presented in this study. The results from the optimisation are demonstrated on the target power electronic circuit of a regulated transformer rectifier unit for more-electric aircrafts. The optimisation framework is developed in a generic manner that would lend itself to the optimisation of any choice of converter topology, circuit components, or objective functions.

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稳压变压器整流器单元的电力电子优化

这项研究为电力电子转换器中的无源元件和散热器的设计优化提供了一种综合方法。无源组件的设计和选择提出了一个多目标优化问题，可以根据设计人员分配的偏好和权重将其简化为单目标优化。提出了描述效率，体积和可靠性的数学方程式，以描述本研究中进行优化的可行空间。除了拟议的优化之外，本研究还对大量无源组件比较数据进行了合并和介绍。优化的结果在用于更多电动飞机的稳压变压器整流器单元的目标功率电子电路上得到了证明。